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We are pleased to welcome a new ram to our stud sire team purchased at the 2017 Aberdeen annual sale for the top price of $18,000. Aberdeen 617/16 - or Cracker as we have nicknamed him - is a beautifully balanced ram with the Lambplan figures to match including 20.0 for growth, 230 C+ & 145.0 EQ.

Cracker is the son of the well known ram Aberdeen 5/15 who is ranked #2 for Carcase Plus across all Australian Terminal males. His grand sire is also an impressive ram - Aberdeen 16/12 - who boasts over 1000 progeny across 9 studs.

Bill took a small team of 5 rams over to the Australasian Dorset Championships in Bendigo.

We were very pleased to receive 3 ribbons including 2 in the Lambplan Performance Class. Bill was one of the founding members of Lambplan back in the 1980s and it has definitely become a major part of our breeding program.

The temperature was hot and so were the prices at Newbold’s Poll Dorset & White Suffolk Opportunity Stud Ewe sale last Wednesday 2nd March.

This was our first major mated ewe sale. The loss of leased land prompted the decision to reduce ewe numbers to avoid over-stocking. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all bidders and under-bidders for their support.

The sale drew buyers in from around the state as well as from New South Wales and Western Australia. There were 19 registered bidders, resulting in a clearance of 94 ewes and 15 ewe lambs at a $612 average. Seventeen buyers purchased ewes.

“We very proud of the line-up of ewes on offer today. It was both humbling and exciting to see the number of studs here investing in Newbold genetics.” Bill said.

Thank you to all who attended the 71st Annual Newbold On-Property Sale on Thursday 24th September and congratulations to all buyers.

The impetus as Most Successful Exhibitor at the Adelaide Royal show continued at Newbold’s 71st annual sale. Strong demand was evident from Lot 1 with phone bids coming from interstate. Newbold 108/14 was eventually purchased for $6400 by Tim & John Hedges, Bugle Downs, Keith SA. Tim & John also won another bidding duel for Lot 2, Newbold 564/14. Selling for $7000, N564 was the highest priced ram of the sale. These two rams were the winning Lamb Production pair at this year’s Adelaide Show.

Newbold is proud to be involved in the Meat Elite purchase of the top price ram at the Hillcroft Farms Poll Dorset Stud Dispaeral. HF756/13 is a structurally correct ram with excellent muscling and Lambplan figures (BWT 0.36, PWT 16.9, PEMD 3.6, C+ 223). See his full ASBVs here.

We are excited to include him in our breeding program for the 2015 drop and look forward to seeing how his progeny perform.